Help with an 'icon'

ajf · 11 Mar 2013 at 22:28

Can someone help me out here?
I want to use this small image as an icon:

I want the white area to be transparent and then the actual symbols white.
How do I do this?
I only have a jpeg image. I can use Photoshop but not sure where to start as not something I do much of.

Thanks

ajf · 12 Mar 2013 at 14:54

Ah, thanks

So what is the method to doing this?
Obviously pretty straightforward but not in the realm of what I normally do!

ajf · 12 Mar 2013 at 20:10

Seemed so easy..

Not sure what I'm doing! Got the background sorted OK and then changed the colour of the tools and all seems OK.
Then I save the image and all I end up with is a blank white square. Saving it seems to change the transparency to white.
I tested it on this post to check it didn't work when posted, and it is definitely saving as a white square!

Looks OK:

Saved:

ajf · 12 Mar 2013 at 20:24

Ah, got it

Thanks for that. Never occurred to me. Usually only deal with RAW photos in image editing.